Oram out - the Kiwis are just unable to field a fully fit team.
I'm sick of it. It always afflicts the Kiwi's just when there's a sniff (albeit a very small one) of providing some competitiveness against the Aussies. Oram, New Zealand's main all round striking force, is injured again, and obviously has a body that just can't take the strain. Also, Chris Martin has just passed a fitness test....
For those who doubted whether the final would be a barnstorming event, I give you the New Zealand starting XI.
1 Brendon McCullum (wk, capt), 2 Aaron Redmond, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Neil Broom, 6 Grant Elliot, 7 James Franklin, 8 J Patel, 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Shane Bond, 11 Ian Butler. [...]...
How crap is New Zealand’s team management? Are there really so few talented players in the country that the likes of Neil Broom and James Franklin are bring persisted with despite so many failures. Here are Neil Brooms’ ODI stats:
Format
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
21
21
3
309
71
17.16
435
71.03
0
1
24
3
2
0
Ok, some would argue 21 innings is too few...
They have dropped "my boy" Pingers! The bastards!
Now I know it is not a surprise; he has yet to completely tear an attack apart, and we have lost a couple of games, and someone has to pay. What rips my lunch pass is who does/doesn’t get the breaks. Guptil becomes the answer, even though he is struggling. OK, he has a future and I can wear that, but how in the name of all things cricket can...
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